Here you will be able to view the documentation showing all changes that have been made to Vision Distribution and ePOD The documents list details of bug fixes, improvements and new features that have been implemented in order to enhance the way that Vision Distribution works. Where a new feature has been added, you will be able to link directly to the user manual page giving details of how the new feature works and what it does. You will also be able to view the details of changes which are due to take place in future releases of Vision Distribution. |
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| Version | 2.3.5 |
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| Release Date | 20/02/2020 |
| Other Application Requirements | Check prior versions |
| Warnings or Notices | None |
VDIST-1163 (Bug) - Delivery Instructions were not appearing on the route planning.
| Version | 2.3.4 |
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| Release Date | 15/01/2020 |
| Other Application Requirements | Check prior versions |
| Warnings or Notices | None |
| UID | Summary | Issue Type | Affects Version/s | Component/s | Description | Linked to | Config Required | Licensed Module |
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| VDIST-1127 | Unplanned Delivery - BI | Report | 2.3.1 | BI | New report added which is showing unplanned deliveries defined by manifest date > 7 days No manifest associated | RFC-562 | No | No |
| VDIST-1140 | Delivery - Status 'P' after booked date entered | Issue | 2.3.3 | Deliveries | After a booking date is entered for a delivery, in the back end the held reason for ‘Awaiting Booking’ is not removed which later causes an issue with the delivery update job from VW, which prevents the delivery from being updated from status P to O. | VW-4630;VSUP-12010;VW-4632;VDIST-1123 | No | No |
| VDIST-1137 | Delivery - View route | Issue | 2.3.3 | Route planning - automated | The user has to close and reopen the delivery screen after saving a PD delivery for the charges > 'View Route' button to appear. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1136 | Route planning - multiple manifests per driver | Issue | 2.3.3 | Route planning - automated | When multiple manifests are prepared for a driver, the user clicks 'Accept Plan' and all deliveries are put on to a single manifest. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1135 | Route planning - layout | Issue | 2.3.3 | Route planning - automated | When a user saves their layout after changing the column sizes, it's not being recalled correctly. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1129 | User groups - default administrator group | Issue | 2.3.3 | General | During the system updates, we need a way to be sure which group is an administrator account, to setup access to new features, new enquiries etc so that customers know they exist. When systems are first setup, an administrator group is created by default. Some customers change the name of this and later may not use it as an administrator group. Changes will be implemented to ensure that there is always a top level administrator group which our accounts will be linked to, as well as the default customer administrator accounts and this will not be able to be changed. | VW-4345;VB-985;VINVOICING-593;VC-2089 | No | No |
| VDIST-1124 | Depot Plan - Performance | Issue | 2.3.3 | Route planning - manual | When working with large datasets the new Depot Plan screen can run 100-200% slower than it did before when performing certain tasks. | VSUP-11381;VDIST-1128 | No | No |
| VDIST-1122 | VBI - Latest update | Issue | 2.3.3 | BI | Include the latest VBI v1.1.3 fixes and updates. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1114 | Delivery address - field consistency | Issue | 2.3.0 | Deliveries | On deliveries in the Delivery Point tab the use of the word "Consignee" is inconsistent with the wording we have used elsewhere in the system. This will be renamed to be "Name / Business" Also for consistency and backward compatibility the other field are to have additional identifiers No & Street (Add1) Building Name (Add2) (Add3) Town Search Results also need to be updated. Generic Description would be “DP Name” This is to differentiate it from the Collection Point or intermediate depot point. | RFC-610 | No | No |
| VDIST-1068 | Depot Plan - Column headers | Issue | 2.2.0 | General | On the Depot Plan, unable to move the columns where you want them. | VSUP-11599;VSUP-10338 | No | No |
| VDIST-926 | Transport Item - Tabbing | Issue | 2.1.1 | Maintenance | The tabbing index on some tabs is inconsistent, plus some other validation and display issues. | VSUP-8845;VSUP-10278;VSUP-10479;VW-3919 | No | No |
| VDIST-1104 | Depot Plan - Planned Arrival Time column | Design Change | 2.3.0 | Route planning - automated | Users would like to see the ‘Planned arrival time’ for the manifest shown. | VDIST-828;VSUP-10946 | No | No |
| VDIST-1139 | Deliveries on hold - manual delivery IDs | Bug | 2.3.3 | General | We have a button in each of the tabs to open the delivery, for manual deliveries the '0' prefix is being omitted. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1138 | Route planning - hours | Bug | 2.3.3 | Route planning - automated | The 'hours' displayed in the Depot Plan for all manifests created from the automated route planning do not agree with the values shown to the user in the map table. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1132 | Archive delivery - charge tab error | Bug | 2.3.3 | Deliveries | When viewing deliveries within the archive and you switch to the Charges tab, the following error is shown "Column 'TotalPhysicalPallets' does not belong to table tblDelivery". | VSTASK-2060 | No | No |
| VDIST-1126 | Depot Plan - Moving Deliveries | Bug | 2.3.3 | Deliveries | When moving multiple deliveries it's not updating the manifest details (e.g. drops, weight), nor can the manifest be expanded to see the deliveries beneath it. | VSUP-11598 | No | No |
| VDIST-1125 | Depot Plan - Repick Documentation | Bug | 2.3.3.1 | Route planning - manual | The repick documentation that is meant to generate when finalising manifests does not generate for systems who use depot printing. | VSUP-11497 | No | No |
| VDIST-1121 | Route Plan - Accept Plan | Bug | 2.3.3 | Route planning - automated | Syntax error when hitting Accept Plan when the data submitted (such as delivery address line 1) contains apostrophes. | VSUP-11363;VCC-881 | No | No |
| VDIST-1119 | Delivery - Geolocation Restriction | Bug | 2.3.3 | Deliveries;Route planning - manual | Restrictions entered for a postcode are not automatically attached to deliveries to that postcode, and when manually adding them the routing system is not matching the delivery with a suitable driver. | VSUP-11247;VLIVE-202 | No | No |
| VDIST-1118 | Delivery - Time 2 fields | Bug | 2.3.3 | Deliveries | When opening a delivery if the TIme2 fields do not have times defined the screen will show the time the delivery was opened. | VSUP-11185 | No | No |
| VDIST-1098 | Delivery area - category validation | Bug | 2.2.0.1 | Maintenance | The category field is not being validated in the delivery area screen. | No | No |
| Version | 2.3.3 |
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| Release Date | 19/09/2019 |
| Other Application Requirements | Check prior versions |
| Warnings or Notices | None |
| UID | Summary | Issue Type | Affects Version/s | Component/s | Description | Linked to | Config Required | Licensed Module |
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| VDIST-1117 | Delivery - time windows | Bug | 2.3.2 | Deliveries | Delivery time windows are not showing when opening deliveries (archived deliveries are fine however). | VSUP-11127 | No | No |
| VDIST-1111 | VW> VD Update - Missing address details | Bug | 2.2.0.2 | Deliveries | Orders were being pulled from VW into VD without their address details being pulled over despite the address being in VW. | VSUP-10975 | No | No |
| VDIST-1092 | Delivery - Confirmation By Carrier | Change | 2.3.0 | Deliveries | Receiving an error when using the F11 key searching for the Carrier in the “Confirmation by Carrier†screen. | No | No |
| Version | 2.3.2 |
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| Release Date | 30/08/2019 |
| Other Application Requirements | Check prior versions |
| Warnings or Notices | None |
| UID | Summary | Issue Type | Affects Version/s | Component/s | Description | Linked to | Config Required | Licensed Module |
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Unprinted Manifests Report - Reasons | Bug | 2.3.1 | General | Due to changes made to the Unprinted Manifests report the reasons are not showing correctly as they did before, it’s showing the same reasons for all deliveries within the manifest, preventing users from easily finding problem deliveries which are holding up the automated manifest prints. | VSUP-11011 | No | No | |
Deliveries - Total Weight | Issue | 2.3.1 | Deliveries, Route planning - automated | The total weight for the deliveries is showing incorrectly. | No | No | ||
Dashboards - Awaiting POD for Redeliveries | Issue | 2.3.0 | TV / Dashboards | The dashboards are not displaying statistics for the 'Deliveries without POD' when deliveries are redelivered. | No | No |
| Version | 2.3.1 |
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| Release Date | 28/08/2019 |
| Other Application Requirements | Check prior versions |
| Warnings or Notices | None |
| UID | Summary | Issue Type | Affects Version/s | Component/s | Description | Linked to | Config Required | Licensed Module |
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| VDIST-1105 | Delivery - Incorrect Weights | Bug | 2.3.0 | Deliveries | When creating a delivery, the weight is showing incorrect | No | No | |
| VDIST-1102 | Route Plan - Drop Order | Bug | 2.3.0 | Route planning - automated, Route planning - manual | Order of the Drop points are changing from the Route Planner to the Depot Plan | No | No | |
| VDIST-1071 | Report - Orders Report | Bug | 2.3.0 | General | When selecting multiple statuses, the Total for (status) it showing the total for the whole document. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1004 | Enquiry 101 Site Manifest Deliveries | Design Change | 2.1.5 | BI | Enquiry 101 Site Manifest Deliveries - was created for a specific customer with specific site codes, will now be changed to work for all. | VDIST-1003, VDIST-803 | No | No |
| VDIST-1106 | Dashboards - Awaiting POD for Redeliveries | Issue | 2.3.0 | TV / Dashboards | The dashboards are not displaying statistics for the 'Deliveries without POD' when deliveries are redelivered. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1007 | VW > VD customer import - email | Issue | 2.2.0 | General | The VW to VD customer import job is not defaulting the customer's email address, it'll be changed to do this but users will be permitted to later change the VD email address to something different to the VW record if required. | No | No |
| Version | 2.3.0 |
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| Release Date | 20/08/2019 |
| Other Application Requirements | VDG v2.4.3+ |
| Warnings or Notices | None |
| UID | Summary | Issue Type | Affects Version/s | Component/s | Description | Linked to | Config Required | Licensed Module |
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| VDIST-1083 | Manifest & delivery notes - RePick Manifest with driver info | New Feature | 2.2.0 | Deliveries | Stage 1 - when the manifest is finalised, it currently prints the manifest and delivery notes to the printer for the transport teams. It will now also send an email to the DELIVERY DEPOT manifest repick address, this email will contain * Copy of the manifest * A re-pick note which will be designed to print grouped customer and in a summary format allowing multiple on a page where possible. | RFC-562 | No | No |
| VDIST-772 | Delivery quotation - haulier job acceptance email | New Feature | 1.13.3 | Report Template | Automatic email sent to haulier address when confirming the job with the selected haulier. | RFC-211 | No | No |
| VDIST-1009 | Planning Screen Enhancements | Improvement | 2.1.5 | Route planning - manual | Depot Plan 1) Ability to open a delivery from the window 2) Add Delivery Date filter and default it to be UPTO and Including the date selected. 3) Change Picked in Advance to Advanced Deliveries, showing deliveries where the calculated date is beyond the next delivery date 4) Finalisation of the manifest shoudl print manual as well as VW notes, also including replanned deliveries as the first note should not be considered as being available. Route Plan 1) Delivery Date should be UPTO and including the date selected 2) Bottom right hand grid for consignments to choose needs to be made larger both in height and width if possible Delivery 1) Change Weight to be Line Weight to stop needing to calculate the weight manually. | No | No | |
| VDIST-940 | Integrate VBI 1.1.1 | Improvement | 2.1.0 | General | Integration of the latest version of VBI to fix some bugs & minor improvements. | No | No | |
| VDIST-918 | Reason / problem codes for ePOD | Improvement | 2.1.1 | Maintenance | A new field to control if problem / reason codes are available to ePOD, to be used in a future version of ePOD. | No | No | |
| VDIST-882 | Manifest search screen - postcode | Improvement | 2.1.1 | Nav - Form | The postcode will be shown to the left of the drop number on the screen which loads from the manifest search result, this will help looking into issues with ePODs and missing signatures. | VDIST-676 | No | No |
| VDIST-857 | Manifest Finalisation | Improvement | 2.1.0 | Route planning - manual | Add a new service against the carrier / carrier item called "Send finalised manifest via email" A new email field will be needed and if the carrier is set to send it will send for all vehicles (items) alternatively if only set for the item then just sends for the item. When the job is finalised the service will poll the manifests and decide if it needs to send the information (manifest) as a pdf to the email address, should the carrier have the haulier extract marked as needed this will also be sent on the same email at the same time. One email to one manifest. The system will also have to show if a manifest has been emailed, and at what time. | No | No | |
| VDIST-829 | Route planning - consignments columns | Improvement | 2.1.0 | Route planning - automated | The 'Order Date' will be added to the list of available columns for the consignments grids. | No | No | |
| VDIST-828 | Depot plan enhancements for manifests created by route planning | Improvement | 2.1.0 | Route planning - automated | Users would like to see the following fields for the manifest shown: - Total KM - Total duty hours - Planned arrival time ...these cannot be recalculated so any manual adjustments to the results by users (for example adding new deliveries to the manifest) would result in erroneous records, as such any manually edited by the users would need to be marked as such and displayed in the front end and saved. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1050 | Delivery - Charges for D / I status | Design Change | 2.2.0 | Deliveries | When deliveries are being updated to status D/I many fields in the charge tab appear to be wiped, this is because the values are calculated, but we don't recalculate for D/I status deliveries, as such the fields will be saved and displayed instead. | VSUP-9688 | No | No |
| VDIST-1080 | Transport dashboards - return deliveries | Issue | 2.2.0.1 | General | The transport dashboards are including return deliveries in the outstanding deliveries / manifests stats. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1075 | Delivery - Charge band | Issue | 2.2.0.1 | Deliveries | Users are unable to change the charge band, the system keeps reverting it. A 'Fixed' checkbox has been added to allow the user to fix the charge band. | VDIST-1062, VSUP-9688 | No | No |
| VDIST-1070 | Manifest Search - Cancelled order | Issue | 2.3.0 | Deliveries | When an order is cancelled in VW but if the manifest was already created, upon searching for the manifest number it shows an error. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1057 | Depot Plan - Finalising multiple | Issue | 2.2.0 | General | If we manually choose more than one manifest to finalise, only first manifest was getting printed. | VDIST-927 | No | No |
| VDIST-1051 | Create Delivery - Specify Times | Issue | 2.2.0 | Deliveries | Error occurred upon saving the delivery once the 'Specify time' is checked and then unchecked and then delivery saved. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1017 | Depot plan - changing a delivery's depot | Issue | 2.1.5 | Deliveries | When moving Delivery's to another Depot it is slower in comparison to the Depot Plan (Old) screen. It also keeps changing to the 'Past' tab. | VSUP-9160 | No | No |
| VDIST-1003 | Deliveries held - auto released too early | Issue | 2.1.5 | General | Deliveries are being taken off hold whilst awaiting user restriction confirmation when they are picked. They should remain on hold until the confirmation is received. | No | No | |
| VDIST-999 | Manifest Message for ePOD - scrolling | Issue | 2.1.5 | General | When using the scrollbar to go to the bottom of the screen, the last manifest is getting cut off. | No | No | |
| VDIST-992 | Delivery lines - proportionate value | Issue | 2.1.4 | Deliveries | Against the delivery lines we store the invoice cases to get an idea of the proportionate value of each line when compared to the overall delivery charge. A problem occurs when we have a delivery with one line, for 11 singles of a 12 pack which charges an overall 1 total invoice case but at the line we have 0.917. A change will be made to introduce a new field to store the correct proportionate value of the line when compared to the delivery total, which would show 1 or 100% in the example above. | No | No | |
| VDIST-946 | Depot Plan - Speed up | Issue | 2.1.0 | Route planning - manual | The "new" depot plan is still slower to use when compared to the "Old Depot Plan", this will be fixed so we can later remove the "Old Depot Plan". | No | No | |
| VDIST-927 | Depot plan - finalising multiple | Issue | 2.1.1 | Deliveries | Users can only finalise one manifest or ALL manifests - an error appears if the user selects multiple manifests and clicks on 'Finalise Selected'. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1088 | Depot plan - moving deliveries | Bug | 2.1.6 | Route planning - manual | Depot plan screen has various issues when moving a delivery from one manifest to another. | VSUP-10544 | No | No |
| VDIST-1064 | Enquiry - Unprinted Manifest Report | Bug | 2.2.0 | General | After changes made on VDG-107 the Unprinted manifest report is not clearing manifests that have generated. | VSUP-10142, VDG-110 | No | No |
| VDIST-1052 | Pre-Advice - EDI Pick Up and Returns charge issues | Bug | 2.2.0 | Deliveries | Pick up + Return Deliveries created through EDI are not pulling through their charges correctly and therefore are not applying Transport discounts, however, VW Pre-Advice does show correctly. | VSUP-9617 | No | No |
| VDIST-1047 | Route Planning - Accept Plan speed | Bug | 2.1.6 | Route planning - automated | After clicking Accept plan the system takes too long to save each manifest. | VSUP-9671 | No | No |
| VDIST-1040 | Delivery - Site code | Bug | 2.1.6 | Deliveries | There are instances whereby the delivery site code is being reset to the first site (when the same customer code is setup against multiple site codes). | VSUP-9591 | No | No |
| VDIST-1039 | Load plan - PD kind | Bug | 2.2.0 | Deliveries | Load plan - Pickup & Delivery kind deliveries are not available in the create load plan screen. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1035 | Route Planning - PR delivery travel time | Bug | 2.1.5 | Route planning - automated | When using the automated route planning screen for a pickup (and return stock to depot), the map appears to be showing the route correctly however the results table is not, some issues fixed in VDIST-1012 except for the travel time, this issue will complete the last of the PR issues. | No | No |
| Version | 2.2.0 |
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| Release Date | 10/05/2019 |
| Other Application Requirements | Vision Live v5.2.3+ (for route planning) |
| Warnings or Notices | The default columns displayed in the Depot Plan are changing, if you find that one of the columns you use has disappeared then right click the column headings, select 'Field Chooser' and add it back in to the desired position. The routing engine providers have a bug in their service requiring you to set the drivers 'max transport point count per tour' to an additional +1 to work correctly. The fix is available and our server update is being arranged. The field can be set correctly after the server is updated. |
| UID | Summary | Issue Type | Affects Version/s | Component/s | Description | Linked to | Config Required | Licensed Module |
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| VDIST-695 | Report - Manifest | Report | 2.1.1 | Report Template | Improve the Manifest to bring it in line with the functionality available in the system with concise terms I *Despatch Information* 1. Site column - Renamed to Dispatching Address - Displays the full address of the dispatching location. 2. Despatch Date - The dates when the goods are due to be picked up from the dispatching warehouse. 3. Despatch Time - The time when the goods are due to be picked up from the dispatching warehouse. II *Delivery Point Information* 1. Name column - Renamed to Destination Address. Displays the name, addressline1, town, postcode of the destination location. 2. Booked Date - This is the date when the goods are due to be delivered to Destination Address. 3. Booked Time - This is the time when the goods are due to be delivered to desintation address. It should print in DROP Order as per route planning, if automated planning is done then estimated times should be shown. If there are different types of deliveries, such as pick up and drop elsewhere each is to have its own section as they would not be within the depot Delivery or pick and return. | RFC-121 | No | No |
| VDIST-1048 | Route plan - Multiple deliveries to same address | Issue | 2.1.6 | Route planning - automated | When multiple deliveries are being delivered to the same address they are not considered at the same delivery for the transport item 'Max Transport Point Count Per Tour' setting. A new depot setting will be added 'Accumulate delivery stops by address' to enable this. | VLIVE-169, VSUP-9299 | No | No |
| VDIST-1046 | Delivery - Manifest Message Screen | Issue | 2.2.0 | General | Receiving an error when clicking Search in the Manifest Message screen. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1031 | Create Delivery - Save | Issue | 2.2.0 | Deliveries | While trying to create delivery and click Save button, it is not validating the postcode address automatically. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1023 | Transport Item - Exception | Issue | 2.1.6 | Maintenance | While trying to edit Delivery Depots tab under View/Edit Transport Item screen, it shows an exception. | No | No | |
| VDIST-805 | Route Planning - Top Filters | Issue | 2.1.0 | Route planning - automated | The filters on the screen are being applied to the selected items, when they should only apply to the unselected deliveries on the left side. | VDIST-787 | No | No |
| VDIST-1008 | TV screen stats | Improvement | 2.1.5 | General | The stats TV screen has had some improvements following feedback. | No | No | |
| VDIST-676 | Nav - View Manifest | Improvement | 2.1.5 | Nav - Form | View manifest The grid will be updated to the new version and will be tidied up at the same time, new changes will be introduced to make it easier to see potential issues on current routes, including: * Highlighting of delivery times when revised ETAs do not fall between the delivery windows * Highlighting of the revised ETA if more than 2 hours outside of the originally calculated ETA * Delivered lines will be greyed out but still visible * Ordering the grid by drop number A new BI enquiry will also be created showing similar information but problem lines only. Manifest search Will be improved to allow finding a manifest by customer information (i.e. customer code, doc ref, postcode) to facilitate finding a manifest out for delivery and seeing the above screen giving a good idea of the current status for any chasing customers. | RFC-43 | No | No |
| VDIST-647 | Distribution Planning - Depot Plan | Improvement | 2.1.4 | Route planning - manual | Improvements to the Depot Planning Screen Have the ability to show the following fields on the screen to assist with planning: - Delivery area ...plus the new EDI fields from Delivery Option, below: - Service Codes - indication that there are codes and display on mouseover - Service Level - display this field - Area Number - display this field Changes to the default columns displayed will be made but the existing 'Field chooser' available by right clicking the column headings will have all fields available for users to choose which fields they prefer to see. | RFC-8 | No | No |
| VDIST-1036 | Depot Plan - Moving a delivery back | Bug | 2.1.6 | Deliveries | When moving all the Deliveries to a Manifest you are unable to move one back to the left hand side. | No | No | |
| VDIST-1021 | Geolocation Restriction - adding service code | Bug | 2.1.5 | Maintenance | When trying to add a service code to a Geolocation Restriction on systems with large datasets the process is timing out which is resulting in a BMC error being thrown. | VSUP-9222 | No | No |
| VDIST-1016 | Delivery - Charge pop up | Bug | 2.1.5 | Deliveries | If you change the Charge on a Delivery and click the Recalculate Charges button the message window that pops up is confusing and the first time you make a choice, clicking the Recalculate button will show the message again but not afterwards. | VSUP-9161 | No | No |
| VDIST-1012 | Route Planning - PR deliveries | Bug | 2.1.5 | Route planning - automated | When using the automated route planning screen for a pickup (and return stock to depot), the map appears to be showing the route correctly however the results table is not. | No | No |